France stuttered, steadied and eventually stunned as Kylian Mbappe broke his country's all-time goalscoring record in an ultimately thrilling 3-1 win over Senegal at MetLife Stadium. Substitute Bradley Barcola netted either side of a pair of exquisite strikes from his captain,

That is a question that very few observers of the tournament are asking, namely because it has already happened twice. France quite famously won its first World Cup in 1998 on home soil, then pulled off the feat again in 2018 led by a teenage forward named Kylian Mbappe.